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God I hated Franco's character

posted 8 years ago by ShadowWinchesterX81
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Il admit there is some personal bias in this one. While I definitely have conservative sensibilities, I'm no prude. I enjoy a good raunchy comedy every now and then if its all in good fun. But there is something about seeing some guy show zero respect for his perspective fiancé's parents or the clearly conservative morals that they hold (their teenage son isn't even allowed to swear or watch rated R movies) and tried to pass along to their daughter that just hit a nerve for me.

It would have been fine if they had poked more fun at the millennial BS of it all. And if maybe there was a watershed moment for Franco's character where he realizes he has some serious maturing to do. But instead most of the comedy comes from her father raising legitimate concerns over this man's alarmingly amoral behavior and the effect it is having on his daughter (and subsequently the rest of his family), and for it he is portrayed as over the top and controlling; with the boyfriend never once corrected on his character. But all of his past actions become irrelevant in the end because he demonstrates some very basic human decency that for some reason negates the fact that he is a man that thinks its acceptable to display cartoon pornography in every room of the house.

It wasn't even all that funny.

Imagine "Meet the Parents", only with Ben Stiller purposely doing all of the things that accidentally happened around him. Suddenly Robert Deniro isn't so unreasonable.

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[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

I agree, this was a terrible movie for so many reasons. There were about 2 gags that made me laugh, and I don't know how but I managed to watch the thing to the end, so I am forced by my own standards to give it a 2/5. 1/5 is reserved for stuff that is unwatchable.

1 - unwatchable
2 - at least watchable, once.
3 - your average movie entertaining without major problems.
4 - a good movie with a point and redeeming social value.
5 - movie that one could recomend and that one does or could watch multiple times.

[–] Yabeina (188) 6 years ago

I agree it would have been a lot funnier if it was trying more to mock his juvenile out-there behaviour. The dad's cringes were awesome, but Laird's cringeworthy behaviour should have been highlighted more precisely. The whole motorboat thing was done as if to shock the old people, not to make fun of its idiocy. It would have been good if the younger brother, after getting sucked into Laird's childish crap, was the one to pull back and say, "hey, time to grow up." That would have been funny. Such lost opportunity on that side of this comedy. It was only Cranston that kept me watching it.